Yaacov Lozowick (Hebrew: יעקב לוזוביק (1957), is a German-born Israeli historian and writer. He was the director of the archives at Yad Vashem.
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Yaakov Lozowick was born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. In 1980, he gained qualifications as a tourist guide. In 1982, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1984 he obtained a diploma in pedagogy and in 1989 a master's degree in contemporary Judaism from the Hebrew University. In 1995, he completed his doctorate in contemporary Judaism at Hebrew University.
In 1990, Lozowick worked as a history teacher at Himmelfarb high school for boys in Jerusalem.
In 1986-1989, he taught modern Jewish history at World Union of Jewish Students Academy. He worked as a researcher at Yad Vashem from 1982, and served as director of Seminars for Educators from Abroad[1] from 1989 to 1993. At the suggestion of Austrian political scientist Andreas Maislinger, he organized the first German-language Seminars for Educators from Abroad.[2]
From 1993 until 2007 he served as the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.
Lozowick's 2003 book Right to Exist is an attempt to apply Just War theory to Israel's wars.[3]Contemporary Sociology describes Lozowick as a “long time leftist and peace activist.” [3]